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White house officials rally support the Middle East peace plan

Supreme US officials will share details of the economic part of their peace plan with several wealthy Arab countries as they look to secure financial support for the economic plan to increase the Palestinian economy if Israelis and Palestinians reach a political settlement. Although officials will not take care of the administration's vision of a political solution, the presentations will be the most significant to date of the Administration's carefully agreed peace plan.

"We didn't want to take this tour if we weren't serious about a launch in the coming months," said a senior white house official who was anonymous to share details of the unannounced journey.

Senior Adviser Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, the Special Representative for International Negotiations, will offer the details to their colleagues for a week's journey at the end of the month to Saudi Arabia, Oman, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, said the senior white house officials.

Kushner and Greenblatt will look for the countries concepts in the economic plan but will not ask for immediate economic promises, noting that these governments will first see details of the political solution Tru mp's plans to offer. said two senior white house officials.

"They will not support the economic plan without ensuring that they also support the political plan, and we recognize it. So the support is certainly dependent on whether they are comfortable with the political plan," a senior white said House official and added that Kushner and Greenblatt will also seek feedback from the regional leaders.

White house officials said the US would also help finance any economic package, but procurement from Middle Eastern countries would be crucial as government officials consider the financial part to be a lynchpin for its peace proposal.

"The economic plan only works if the region supports it," said the official. "We take very seriously both aspects of this, the political and the economic … We understand that if the political aspect of it is not solid , the economic aspect is meaningless, but at the same time, the political aspect will not succeed without a proper economic plan. "But the slow march towards a roll-out comes just as Palestinian officials have continued to deny direct talks with the Trump administration. Palestinian officials cut off contact with the White House after Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital in December 201

7, but senior white house officials said they had consulted with other Palestinians to measure the Palestinian perspective.

Due to Palestinian officials' refusal to engage in the US-led peace process, Trump administration moved last summer to cut US funds to the United Nations Palestinian Aid Agency.

And the relations between the United States and the Palestinian Authority have only wiped out in recent weeks. Palestinian officials rejected US funding for its security forces late last month for concerns that acceptance of the funds could leave the Palestinian Authority responsible for legal requirements under a new US anti-terrorist law, the Anti-Terrorism Act. The Congress and the State Department are trying to find a way around the limitations of the new laws.

The trip to the region was originally scheduled to take place last month, but was delayed due to the partial government termination. Kushner and Greenblatt will also be accompanied by Brian Hook, US Special Representative for Iran, and a Senior Political Adviser to the State Secretary, as well as several officials involved in designing the economic plan.

The economic plan will include a combination of public and private investment aimed at stimulating job creation in the Palestinian territories, Palestinian and Israeli officials should reach a political settlement to end the conflict, White House officials said. Trump administration officials hope the economic package will incite the Palestinian leaders to accept an agreement.

Kushner, Greenblatt and other US officials have been working to develop the peace plan over the past two years and have begun to fine their staff in the fall to prepare for public dissemination. In September, Trump said he was likely to reveal his administration's peace plan by the end of January.

But turmoil in the domestic Israeli policy forced the White House to push back its timeline when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called snapshot scheduled for April. A senior White House official said the White House is likely to wait until after the election release to release its peace plan.

The White House's decision to share important details of its peace plan with other countries was the safest indication yet that the White House is gearing to a public roll-out, which they have so far refused to share details of the plan for fear that aspects of the plan would leak and undermine their plans. Two senior white house officials on Thursday acknowledged that presentations to foreign officials could cause parts of the economic plan to leak to the public because it was important to get these countries on board.

Trump administration officials have repeatedly pointed to moving the dynamics of the Middle East as a sowing fertile ground for the release of any peace plan. Israel and the Sunni Muslim countries in the Middle East have steadily grown closer in recent years over a common picture of the Iranian threat, and the White House hopes that Arab countries may urge Palestinian leaders to accept an agreement.